While it’s all well and good for Premier Kathleen Wynne to sell herself as a new leader who’s taking the province in a different direction- trajectory as she called it- making electors believe it is another thing entirely.
You could say she needs to put her money where her mouth is, except that’s exactly the problem with the governing party of this province. It has been for some time. And it’s our money.
There Wynne was again on Friday, giving more of it to a company that perhaps deserves our praise, but not our pocketbooks.
Government programs funding private companies on the backs of taxpayers seem to be more commonplace these days and there’s something to be said for a more conservative philosophy that seeks to create a better environment for business to flourish on its own.
If two byelections are any indication, the people of Ontario are tired of seeing their money being spent hand over fist. The list of Liberal boondoggles is long and costly, not to mention expensive green energy subsidies to create more electricity that we pay other jurisdictions to take off our hands, all the while watching our hydro bills skyrocket.
Under the Liberals, government debt has ballooned to more than $272 billion.
A different trajectory, maybe. But Wynne doesn’t have much time to convince the electorate.
Continuous handouts won’t help her cause.